The Ivory Tower of Adantine is a mammoth, socially progressive nation, ruled by Erenel Elkentar with an even hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, daily referendums, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 9.436 billion Adanti enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Adamant. The average income tax rate is 71.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Adantian economy, worth a remarkable 1,711 trillion Hand-made Baskets a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 181,424 Hand-made Baskets, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All new "spies" are fifteen-year-old acne-ridden kids on computers, Erenel Elkentar lives life on the open road - complete with groupies, doctors are learning that red tape makes ineffective bandages, and schoolchildren on field trips are asked what torture means to them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Adantine's national animal is the друг, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Elkentarim.

Adantine is ranked 17,942^nd in the world and 809^th in Lazarus for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 326.99 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.